Hard Times (1975 film)

Hard Times is a 1975 film starring Charles Bronson as Chaney, a drifter who travels to Louisiana during the Great Depression and begins competing in illegal bareknuckled boxing matches. The movie was Walter Hills directorial debut.

Speed wants to become Chaneys manager. They travel to New Orleans, where Speed intends to enter Chaney against local fighters at long odds. Chaney takes a cheap sleeping room. At a diner, he meets Lucy Simpson Jill Ireland, a lonely woman whose husband is in prison. They begin an uneasy affair.Chaney cautions Speed that he wants to make a little money to fill a few inbetweens, and then move on. Speed recruits a cutman, the medical school dropout Poe Strother Martin. An opium addict a dyed in the wool hophead Poe is relieved when Chaney accepts him. ........

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